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Non-Blocking I/O in Servlet 3.1

Servlet 3.1 is a relatively minor release slated for Java EE 7. However, the Java EE foundational API still contains some very important changes, especially for folks building on the Servlet API. One such feature is the newly added support for non-blocking I/O to empower low-latency, high throughput applications, protocols and web frameworks.